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-> '''Shawn''': I don't like me when I drink, either.\\
-> '''Angela''': Good. Because I sure like you when you don't. [''roll credits'']
-> '''Angela''': Good. Because I sure like you when you don't. [''roll credits'']
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* VerySpecialEpisode: The episode is not subtle with its anti-underaged drinking messaging and ends with providing a hotline number for those teens looking for help with addiction.
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* VerySpecialEpisode: The episode is not subtle with its anti-underaged drinking messaging and ends with providing a hotline number for those teens looking for help with addiction.this very on the nose exchange between Shawn and Angela:
-> '''Shawn''': I don't like me when I drink, either.\\
-> '''Angela''': Good. Because I sure like you when you don't. [''roll credits'']
-> '''Shawn''': I don't like me when I drink, either.\\
-> '''Angela''': Good. Because I sure like you when you don't. [''roll credits'']
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* DescentIntoAddiction: The entire episode shows Shawn go from having his first drink to quickly becoming a mean-spirited, careless proto-drunk, showing up to school hammered and even shoving Angela into a door. This trope ends up defied however as Cory, his parents, and all of Shawn's friends and family stage an intervention for Shawn that snaps him out of it. He vows to avoid drinking by the episode's end.
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* DescentIntoAddiction: The entire episode shows Shawn go from having his first drink to quickly becoming a mean-spirited, careless proto-drunk, showing up to school hammered and even shoving Angela into a door. This trope ends up defied subverted however as Cory, his parents, and all of Shawn's friends and family stage an intervention for when a drunk Shawn that shoves Angela into a door. Her walking away and his own horror at what he's done, snaps him out of it. He his spiral and vows to avoid drinking by the episode's end.never drink again.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After drunkenly shoving Angela into a door and her rightfully walking out on him, Shawn turns to Cory and Jack in horror and asks them, "How did that just happen?"
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* DescentIntoAddiction: The entire episode shows Shawn go from having his first drink to quickly becoming a mean-spirited, careless proto-drunk, showing up to school hammered and disrupting class. This trope ends up defied however as Cory, his parents, and all of Shawn's friends and family stage an intervention for Shawn that snaps him out of it. He vows to avoid drinking by the episode's end.
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* DescentIntoAddiction: The entire episode shows Shawn go from having his first drink to quickly becoming a mean-spirited, careless proto-drunk, showing up to school hammered and disrupting class.even shoving Angela into a door. This trope ends up defied however as Cory, his parents, and all of Shawn's friends and family stage an intervention for Shawn that snaps him out of it. He vows to avoid drinking by the episode's end.
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* DescentIntoAddiction: The entire episode shows Shawn go from having his first drink to quickly becoming a mean-spirited, careless proto-drunk, showing up to school hammered and ruining Alan's 46th birthday party with his antics. This trope ends up defied however as Cory, his parents, and all of Shawn's friends and family stage an intervention for Shawn that snaps him out of it. He vows to avoid drinking by the episode's end.
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* DescentIntoAddiction: The entire episode shows Shawn go from having his first drink to quickly becoming a mean-spirited, careless proto-drunk, showing up to school hammered and ruining Alan's 46th birthday party with his antics.disrupting class. This trope ends up defied however as Cory, his parents, and all of Shawn's friends and family stage an intervention for Shawn that snaps him out of it. He vows to avoid drinking by the episode's end.
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* DescentIntoAddiction: The entire episode shows Shawn go from having his first drink to quickly becoming a mean-spirited, careless proto-drunk. This trope ends up defied however as Cory, his parents, and all of Shawn's friends and family stage an intervention for Shawn that snaps him out of it. He vows to avoid drinking by the episode's end.
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* DescentIntoAddiction: The entire episode shows Shawn go from having his first drink to quickly becoming a mean-spirited, careless proto-drunk.proto-drunk, showing up to school hammered and ruining Alan's 46th birthday party with his antics. This trope ends up defied however as Cory, his parents, and all of Shawn's friends and family stage an intervention for Shawn that snaps him out of it. He vows to avoid drinking by the episode's end.
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* ParentsAsPeople: Alan immediately accusing Shawn of being a ToxicFriendInfluence to Cory despite the exact opposite happening is one of the starkest examples in the series of how the Matthews are just people trying their best to raise their kid. It's such a painful reveal of his own shortcomings that Alan emphatically apologizes to Shawn once Cory makes it ''Cory'' clear them drinking and getting arrested wasn't Shawn's fault.
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* ParentsAsPeople: Alan immediately accusing Shawn of being a ToxicFriendInfluence to Cory despite the exact opposite happening is one of the starkest examples in the series of how the Matthews are just people trying their best to raise their kid.kids. It's such a painful reveal of his own shortcomings that Alan emphatically apologizes to Shawn once Cory makes it ''Cory'' clear them drinking and getting arrested wasn't Shawn's fault.
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* ParentsAsPeople: Alan immediately accusing Shawn of being a ToxicFriendInfluence to Cory despite the exact opposite happening is one of the starkest examples in the series of how the Matthews are just people trying their best to raise their kid. It's such a painful reveal of his own shortcomings that Alan emphatically apologizes to Shawn once Cory makes it ''Cory'' clear them drinking and getting arrested wasn't Shawn's fault.
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: After Cory's parents learn that he and Shawn were arrested for underaged drinking and peeing on a cop car, Alan's first instinct is to blame Shawn and accuse him of always having been nothing but a bad influence on straight-laced Cory. Shawn, who has been effectively adopted as a third son to the Matthews, is so hurt that he doesn't even refute the statement, he just leaves. The kicker, as Cory explains to his parents after, is that it was ''Cory'' who stole Alan's whisky on his own and pressured Shawn to drink, not the other way around. Alan looks devastated.
* VerySpecialEpisode: The episode is not subtle with its anti-underaged drinking messaging and ends with providing a hotline number for those teens looking for help with addiction.
* VerySpecialEpisode: The episode is not subtle with its anti-underaged drinking messaging and ends with providing a hotline number for those teens looking for help with addiction.
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* NatureTinkling: Drunk Cory and Shawn pee on a cop car outside in the street just because.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: After Cory's parents learn that he and Shawn were arrested for underaged drinking and peeing on a cop car, Alan's first instinct is to blame Shawn and accuse him of always having been nothing but a bad influence on straight-laced Cory. Shawn, who has been effectively adopted as a third son to the Matthews, is so hurt that he doesn't even refute the statement, he just leaves. The kicker, as Cory explains to his parents after, is that it was ''Cory'' who stole Alan's whisky on his own and pressured Shawn to drink, not the other way around. Alan looksdevastated.
devastated and adamantly apologizes, brushing off Shawn's attempts to minimize the issue.
* VerySpecialEpisode: The episode is not subtle with its anti-underaged drinking messaging and ends with providing a hotline number for those teens looking for help withaddiction.addiction.
* YoureNotMyFather: Said almost verbatim by Shawn to Cory's parents when they begin disciplining Cory and him after they were arrested. Unlike most examples of this trope though, Shawn rejects the Matthews as {{Parental Substitute}}s with weary resignation instead of vitriol, because he's only doing it in reaction to Alan condemning him and to take as much heat off of Cory as possible.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: After Cory's parents learn that he and Shawn were arrested for underaged drinking and peeing on a cop car, Alan's first instinct is to blame Shawn and accuse him of always having been nothing but a bad influence on straight-laced Cory. Shawn, who has been effectively adopted as a third son to the Matthews, is so hurt that he doesn't even refute the statement, he just leaves. The kicker, as Cory explains to his parents after, is that it was ''Cory'' who stole Alan's whisky on his own and pressured Shawn to drink, not the other way around. Alan looks
* VerySpecialEpisode: The episode is not subtle with its anti-underaged drinking messaging and ends with providing a hotline number for those teens looking for help with
* YoureNotMyFather: Said almost verbatim by Shawn to Cory's parents when they begin disciplining Cory and him after they were arrested. Unlike most examples of this trope though, Shawn rejects the Matthews as {{Parental Substitute}}s with weary resignation instead of vitriol, because he's only doing it in reaction to Alan condemning him and to take as much heat off of Cory as possible.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Trying to cover for Cory, Shawn tells Cory's parents that he pressured Cory to drink to help him get over his heartbreak post Topanga breaking up with him.
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: After Cory's parents learn that he and Shawn were arrested, Alan's first instinct is to blame Shawn and accuse him of always having been nothing but a bad influence on straight-laced Cory. Shawn, who has been effectively adopted as a third son to the Matthews, is so hurt that he doesn't even refute the statement, he just leaves. The kicker, as Cory explains to his parents after, is that it was ''Cory'' who stole Alan's whisky and pressured Shawn to drink, not the other way around. Alan looks devastated.
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: After Cory's parents learn that he and Shawn were arrested, arrested for underaged drinking and peeing on a cop car, Alan's first instinct is to blame Shawn and accuse him of always having been nothing but a bad influence on straight-laced Cory. Shawn, who has been effectively adopted as a third son to the Matthews, is so hurt that he doesn't even refute the statement, he just leaves. The kicker, as Cory explains to his parents after, is that it was ''Cory'' who stole Alan's whisky on his own and pressured Shawn to drink, not the other way around. Alan looks devastated.
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* MistakenForGay: Outside a corner store, Cory and Shawn drunkenly share how much they care about each other and hug, Shawn saying he's not ashamed to say that out loud. A guy walks out of the store and upon seeing Cory and Shawn, says "It's okay, my brother's also chosen an ''alternative'' lifestyle," heavily implying that he thinks they're romantically embracingly.
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: A heartbreaking example. After Cory's parents learn that he and Shawn were arrested, Alan's first instinct is to blame Shawn and accuse him of always having been nothing but a bad influence on straight-laced Cory. Shawn, who has been effectively adopted as a third son to the Matthews, is so hurt that he doesn't even refute the statement, he just leaves. The kicker, as Cory explains to his parents after, is that it was ''Cory'' who stole Alan's whisky and pressured Shawn to drink, not the other way around. Alan looks devastated.
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: A heartbreaking example. After Cory's parents learn that he and Shawn were arrested, Alan's first instinct is to blame Shawn and accuse him of always having been nothing but a bad influence on straight-laced Cory. Shawn, who has been effectively adopted as a third son to the Matthews, is so hurt that he doesn't even refute the statement, he just leaves. The kicker, as Cory explains to his parents after, is that it was ''Cory'' who stole Alan's whisky and pressured Shawn to drink, not the other way around. Alan looks devastated.
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* LiquidCourage: Cory turns to alcohol just to make him less awkward at the party and this works: he becomes a funny, charming, life of the party.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: A heartbreaking example. After Cory's parents learn that he and Shawn were arrested, Alan's first instinct is to blame Shawn and accuse him of always having been nothing but a bad influence on straight-laced Cory. Shawn, who has been effectively adopted as a third son to the Matthews, is so hurt that he doesn't even refute the statement, he just leaves. The kicker, as Cory explains to his parents after, is that it was ''Cory'' who stole Alan's whisky and pressured Shawn to drink, not the other way around. Alan looks devastated.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: A heartbreaking example. After Cory's parents learn that he and Shawn were arrested, Alan's first instinct is to blame Shawn and accuse him of always having been nothing but a bad influence on straight-laced Cory. Shawn, who has been effectively adopted as a third son to the Matthews, is so hurt that he doesn't even refute the statement, he just leaves. The kicker, as Cory explains to his parents after, is that it was ''Cory'' who stole Alan's whisky and pressured Shawn to drink, not the other way around. Alan looks devastated.
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In need of a pick-me-up post his break up with Topanga, Cory and Shawn head out to a party where they encounter drinking alcohol for the first time. What starts off as just a fun night, quickly devolves into a lesson about alcoholism and alcohol abuse, as Shawn becomes dependent on drinking.
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* DescentIntoAddiction: The entire episode shows Shawn go from having his first drink to quickly becoming a mean-spirited, careless proto-drunk. This trope ends up defied however as Cory, his parents, and all of Shawn's friends and family stage an intervention for Shawn that snaps him out of it. He vows to avoid drinking by the episode's end.
* VerySpecialEpisode: The episode is not subtle with its anti-underaged drinking messaging and ends with providing a hotline number for those teens looking for help with addiction.
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* DescentIntoAddiction: The entire episode shows Shawn go from having his first drink to quickly becoming a mean-spirited, careless proto-drunk. This trope ends up defied however as Cory, his parents, and all of Shawn's friends and family stage an intervention for Shawn that snaps him out of it. He vows to avoid drinking by the episode's end.
* VerySpecialEpisode: The episode is not subtle with its anti-underaged drinking messaging and ends with providing a hotline number for those teens looking for help with addiction.
